THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURQ, PA. o Notes and Pole I I HE f)UST OF THE By Dr. FREDERICK A. COOK o Copyrlflht, 1?C9, by the New York o Herald Company, Registered In Canada In Accordance With Copy- right Act. Copyright In Mex- ico Under Laws cf the Republic S! cf Mexico. All Rights Reserved ITIio Cook rxppili!; Oloiiecpter. Muns.. ni on July :i, 1:7. 1m Krancke woie put n lrortiliitnl, with iiiri m v:in ni ilpp,'.' ni 1 re;i.ly to sinrt shot' nt AnnootoU. stoma ;ml (lurin; the winter mailt' .rrui al ions for tlie polar iltinh. on K li. i:, the niiiin oxpclillnn Ptiirtoil for thp p(!' with iM' cn iii"n. la'. doit ninl r.'rn lnvivily load ed Mini. (iolt ;i littif north of wont, the party on M.in li is ro.ulipd ti.o north ern end of HelluM' iFland. I'.cro tho t : pcdltion divided, fix nun ivt im mIiik. . rpnl raro to tho potr now lonrt. n March is twptity-six miles were mail1 und the lo'Xt day t n . nty-one. 'I'lirn two ninre of the. men i " ;;h1, lenlnu only two younu Ksklniiis to nornnipniiy 1 r. Cook, with twn lo.nli-d s-ifUi'M and twenty-six 1ivk. on M.iuM sixteen mile--vero rovi'ivil, twenty -nine mile on t! t, twctity-two the f I'.lowlnw day and uftortt.'ird for several day an avoi'auo of nevonteon or eighteen. Near tho northern edife of flrant l.ntid a pn-at open load wi.i encoiniti i I'd, wht pome peril on tho later uftor n sci open under tho ikI roused v. It h tome d i tis- ico Split 'H loo '.orni nd Mr. Took In his the crevice. In'iiu lie voiini; Ksklmo. Fleepin hay ank i:io draped to safety l.y t: The advance wa halt 1 hy Htornis, In Olio of ivltlili tho d'.H another the i " i i i t!.. bin i. d and In - ! VeK. 'I'D t llO West 1 Ihvdl.y I.an.l by Xteoditw from H de deurccs .'1 minutes. 1, .ndied and -vti. s i n aei'o'int of .'- I 1,1. ! to the polo Is a ni'W land, nai Cook, ivai sighted grpffi Lt minutes t and close to tl'.o o meridian. 1'r. I'm dash from lirndlc Klvon below. Tb. Villi till" liewly ilisoovol'oil ro;'sl y linos w.-is M'iioii r.i'aoloy I.siinl. ' in lioio.r .(' .I. liu I:, lirinlloy, ' tlic lioliola.-ti'l' or Hi., cxiioili t loll. As wo i;ism',1 mirth cf litis laml ' tlu'l'o iiolliiii Milistan: ial tij o:i 1 V liicli to li the I'.vo. I i'licro Wits nt ho I i:.:o n ie-foct;v lo:ir horizon, 1 -: t o.-,; hor va:; t!"il eiiuiie.il to inii;i i'roijUont niiilt! cnl (iliscrvjuioiis. Tints day nf'.i f day t lit- iiinn lios Were fmvoil, the i : i. iil.-nts nn,l the pu sitions were recoiilcil. but the adven tures were iroinitly forirot ton in the mental Idoaeh el' :! in-x t tl.iy'.s el't'oii. The iiii;ht of April 7 w:is lnacle lmtahle liy die hwlnjr of the sun at midnight, l'or ti number of liichls it made sri:n faeex at us In Its sitting. A teasing mist, drawn as a ourtalu over tho northern sea tit ii.:tl:ii-ht, had ulven i nu. l ttF.i'i:i;K'K a. cootc. curious advantages for oelestlul staj; ing; Mcttinc Into this haze, we were unable to determine sharply the ad vent of tin- midnight kuu. Now the great bulk was drawn out egg shaped, wllh horizontal lines drawn through it. Again H was press ed Into a basin with tlaniing tires, burning behind a eurtain of frosts; blue at other times, it appeared like a liuge vnse, and it required very little Imagination to see purple and violet flowers. TIik change was often like ma trie, lint the last display was Invariably a face-distorted facts of men or ani mals were made to suit our fancy. AVe had therefore followed the sun's northward advance from its first peep nt midday above the smith Ice of the polar gateway to In sweep of the northern ice tit midnight. From the end of the polar night late In I'ohru nry to the tirst of the double days anil midnight suns we hud forced a trail through darkness, blood hardening temperature and over log breaking ir regularities of an unknown world of Ice to nn area 'Jon miles from the pole. Now we laid the sun unmistakably fit midnight, and its new glory was unite an incentive to our life of shiv ers. Observations on April S placed enmp nt latitude v; degrees CO min utes, longitude !4 degrees 2 minutes. In spite of what seemed like long inarches we had advanced only 10(1 miles In nine days. Much of our hard work was lost in circuitous twists Around troublesome pressure lines and high, irregular fields of very old ice. The drift Ico was throwing us to the east with sufficient force to give us Home anxiety, but with eyes closed to danger nml hardships tho double days of fntlgne and glitter iulckly followed one another. Tho tempernturo, ranging between fill and 40 degrees below zero p., kept persistently nrrtr the freezing point of mercury, and, though the perpetual nun give light nr.d color to tho eheor loss wastes, wo were not Impressed with any appreciable sense of nrnith. II; f$$Q v if - - Bradley land Passed Steam From Frozen Seas Half the Food Allowance Used Mad dening Effect of Polar Glit terDespair of Ahwelah, "Beyond Is Impossible" -o- Indent, the sunbeams seemed to make the frost of the air pierce with a more painful sting. There was a weird play of orgies, seemingly most Impressive at tills time -clouds of steam rose from the frozen seas. In inarching over the gulden glitter snow scalds the face, while the nose is bleached Willi frost. In ramp a grin of the knife left pal'i ful burns from cold metal. To th.1 frozen finger the water was hot. With wine spirits (he tire was lighted, while oil delighted tho stomach. In dr heaven was hot, the other place tuns was cold. All nature was false. We seemed to be Hearing the chilled Maine of a fiew hades. In our hard life there wr. nothing genuinely warm. Tho congou. la I appearances were all deception, but ! death offered only cold comfort. Then was no advantage In suicide. We should have enjoyed this curious experience, but with endless bodily dis comforts, combined in aching muscles and an overbearing languor, there could be no real Joys from the glories of na ture. The pleasure was reserved for a Liter retrospect. We now changed our working hours from day to night, beginning usually at M and ending at 7. The big march es and prolonged hours of travel with which fortune favored us earlier were I'o longer possible. Weather condi tions were more important in deter mining the day's run than the hands id' I ho eliroiioniel ers. When the storms threatened the start was delayed, and In strong blows the man h was shortened, but in one way or another we usually found a few hours in each turn of the dial dur ing which a march could be forced be tween winds. It mattered little wheth er we traveled night or day all hours and all days were alike to lis for we had no accustomed time of rest, no Sundays, no holiday, no landmarks cr mileposts to pass. To advance and ex pond the energy accumulated during one sleep at the cost of our pound of pemtnican was the one sole aim In life. The observations of April 11 gave latitude S7 degrees 20 minutes, longi tude minutes lit seconds. The pack disturbance of ISradley Land was less and less noted in the northward move ment. The Holds became heavier, lar ger and loss crevassed. We had now passed the highest reaches of nil our predecessors and had gained the inspiration of the far thest north for ourselves. Th time was at hand, however, to consider seri ously the necessily of au early return. Nearly half of the food allowance hail been used. In the long marches supplies had bceu more liberally used than anticipated, and now our dog teams were much reduced In numbers. A hard necessity had forced the cruel law of the survival of the fittest, for the less useful dogs were fed to Un steady working survivors. Owing to the food limits and the advancing sea son we could not prudently continue the outward march a fortnight longer. We had dragged ourselves ,'lo0 miles over the polar sen In twenty-four days. Including delays and detours, this gave an average of nearly thirteen miles dally on an air line in our course. There remained an unknown line of 100 miles before our ambitions could be satlsticd. The same average ad vance which we had made on the pack would take us to the pole In thirteen days. There were food and fuel enough to risk this adventure. In the diary of the succeeding days' doings there appear numerous tabu lations of work and observations. In the new cracks the thickness of the ice was measured. The water was ex amined for life. Atmospheric, surface water and ice temperatures were tak en, the barometer was noted, the cloud formations, weather conditions and ice drifts were tubulated. I wa tcliod dally for possible signs of dangerous failure In strength, for serious disability now meant a fatal termination. X disabled man could neither con tinue nor return, but every examina tion gave another reason to push hu man endurance to the limit of tho strain of every liber and cell. Tho hard work which followed, under an occasional burst of biirnhii; sunbeams, brought intense thirst. Forcing the linliit of tho camel, we managed to take enough water before starting to keep sutlicient liquid In tho veins for tho day's inarch, but it was (lltncult to await tho molting of the ice at camping time. Ill two sittings evening and morn ing each took tin average of throe (marts of water daily. This Included the tea and also the luxury of au oc casional soup. There was water about t'M'rywhere lu heaps, but it was in crystals, and before tho thirst could bo (pienched several ounces of pro clous fuel, which had been carrlc 1 thousands of miles, must bo used. And still this wnter, so expensive and so necessary to us, ultimately became the greatest bane to comfort. It escaped through the pores of the skin, satu rated tho boots, forced a band of Ice under tho knee and a bolt of frost about tho waist, while tho face was e o o o o 0 o nearly nlwtiys Incased In a mask of lcl les from the breath a necessary part of our hard lot In life, and we learned to take the torture philosoph ically. From the eighty-seventh to the eighty-eighth parallel we passed for two days over old Ice without pressure lines or lintninocks. There was no dis cernible line of demarcation for the fields, nnd It was iilte Impossible to determine If we were on land or sea lee. The barometer Indicated no ele vation, but the Ice had the hard, wav ing surface of glacial Ice, with only superficial crevasses. The Milter ob tained from this was not salty, but all of the upper surface of the Ico of (bi polar sea makes similar water. Tin nautical observations did not seem to Indicate n drift, but nevertheless the combined tabulations do not warrant the positive assertion of either land or sea for this area. The Ice gave a cheering prospect. A plain of purple and blue ran lu easy cnilulatlons to the limits of vision . for t w nu. COOH IX AIt( TIC cositmi:. without the usual harriers of uplifted blocks. Over It a direct air line course was possible. Progress, however, was ipiite as dlllicult as over the Irregular I tick. The snow was crusted with large crystals. An Increased friction reduced the speed, while the surface, too hard for snowslioes, was also too weak to give a secure footing. The loneliness, the monotony, the hardship of steady, unrelieved travel were now keenly felt. It Is not often that man's horsepow er Is put to the tost as ours was. We were compelled to develop a working energy to the limit of animal capacity. Hay after day we bad pushed along nt the same steady pace over plains of frost and through a mental desert. As the eye opened at the end of tin ley slumber tho tiro was lighted little by little, the stomach was tilled with liquids and solids, mostly cold enough to last for the day, for there could he no halt or waste of fuel for middav feeding. We next got Into harness and paced off the day's pull under the lash of duty. We worked until stand ing became impossible longer In light winds, shorter in strong winds, but al ways until the feet became numb and heavy. Then came the arduous task of build ing a snow house. In this the eyes, no longer able to wink, closed, but soon the empty stomach complained, and it was filled up again not with things that pleased the palate, only hard fuel to feed the inner fires, while the ear sought the soft side of ice to dispel fatigue; no pleasure in mental recrea tion, nothing to arouse the soul from its ley I nd or lire. To eat, to sleep, to press one foot ahead of tho other, was our steady vo cation, like the horse to the cart, but wc had not his advantage of an agree able climate and a comfortable stable nt night. Words and pictures cannot adequate ly describe the maddening Influence of this sameness of polar glitter, com bined with bitter winds, extreme cold and an overworked body. To mo there was always tho Inspiration of antici pation of the outcome of ultimate suc cess, but for my young savage com panions It was a torment almost be yond endurance. Their weariness was made evident by a lax use of the whip and an Indifferent urging )? tho dogs. They were, however, brav and faith ful to the bitter end, seldom allowing selfish ambitions or uncontrollable passions seriously to interfere with the main effort of the expedition. On the morning of April 1,1 a strain of agitating torment reached a break ing point. For days there had boon n steady cutting wind from the west, which drove despair to Its lowest reaches. No torment could be worse than that never ceasing rush of Icy air. Ahwe lah bent over his sled and refused to move. His dogs turned and looked In quiringly. I walked over and stood by his side. Ftuklslnik came near nnd stood motionless, staring blankly nt tho southern skies. Largo tears fell from Ahwolnh's eyes and plied a llltlo frost 4'f sadness In the blue of his own shad ow for several minutes. Not a word was uttered, but I knew that each felt that the lime had come to free tho fet ters of human passions. Slowly Ahwe lah said, "Uuno slnlg pa- oo-ah-tonlo i-o-ilorla" ("It is well to die -beyond Is Impossible"). Of Interest to Woman Readers NEW NIGHT-DRESS SACHET. T De Suspended !sy Ribbons f.'am the Head of the Bed. A very novel idea for n night dress snchot is shown in our Illustration, which gives a RiigtTestlon for a shape which will make a change from the more orJInnry one which folds over anil fastens with n Hap. The Racket stretched Is nintlo In the form of a deep pocket, and It Is lu- HM'I tended that It should 'ic suspended by wide satin ribbons from tho head of the hod, so that it may servo a inoro decorative purpose than Ins hither to been the cu e. Tho sat hot itr-clf is of white satin, embroidered with a w!l,l rose and foliage design, worked In very delicate shades of pink and preen, with a border of silk cord to edge the sachet throughout. In a delicate shade of tur-piolse blue. Mi'.r.y oilier pretty floral lesigns mle.lit h- t-eil In place of wild roses, nnd o:i gio'.mds of various colors. Sprays of npplo-bioasom would be effective, f ir it st: nee, o:i a pale blue ground, or r'l-stors of dark violets on white or green. They should, of course, ee chosen to suit the draperies, etc., In tin room. Give Bi by Water. A baby, like an adult, needs wa'cr as regularly as it needs food. I'iie milk that It gets, though a liquor, does not satisfy Its thirst. It si-ouhl bo given water at least three times a day, and this water .mould ho near ly, if not quite, free of organisms. The water that comes from the average city main or country spring is alive wit'.i microscopic plants and animals, cvtn when it seems clear and spark ling. These minute orginisnis, ss a r.ile. are harmless to adults, but in t'.o delicate stomach of the baby they are apt to cause disturbances, and so they must be eliminated. The best wry to get rid of them Is to allow the water to boil twenty minutes. After that, let It cool and store It tti dean, well-corked bottles which have been previously immersed In b(;:.!n water for live minutes. Giass stop pers nre better than corks. Iloilod water is tasteless and insipid because of the absence of air-bubbles, but the baby seldom notices it. It is best drunk out of a thoroughly clean nursing-bottle. Offer water to the Infant every four hours, and let it drink ns much as it wants. The sup ply for each day should be boiled in tl.e morning. Under no circum stances should rater be kept nioru tLan a day. Memorials for Housekeepers. There are few servants who become fixtures In families in this country. It Is different In Europe, where there Is a class raised to expect nothing above domestic drudgery, and it is In this fact lies the reason for the compara tive absence of a servant girl problem In the Old World. They vnlue good servants over there, too, as Is shown by the placing of a tablet In St. Helen's, liishopsgate. ICngland, in memory of a nurse, who spent thirty nine years in the Bervico of a family named Wigram. Ileslde this tablet is another set up sixty years ago to commemorate the forty-one years' per vice of a housekeeper in the same family. Forty-one years a servant? Is It not better with us in democratic America? Music That Made a Song. Lady Laurie of Maxwelton House, Dumfries, Scotland, Is (load in the home which was the birthplace of An nie Laurie, who was given to tho im mortals by the sung woven around her name. Annie Laurlo was the daughter of the first baronet, and she was born in Maxwelton House In 1US2. Tho words of the song were com cored by a lovesick youth named Douglas of Finglund. and the music iie.iro than a century afterward by Jchn Spotiswood. Pretty Curtains. Henutiful curtains for the den nnd living room are shown 1n craftsman effects. The fabrics are Russian crash, linen, and also a canvas com posed of Jute ar.d linen. Tic :iiatenal used for tho draperies nd I greatly to the beauty of the stencils. 1'Le effec tive nnd simple designs ure flowery and conventional. A pair of curtains recently exhibited were of fcitiy, with a stenciled border done in old green. Children's Sleep. As n general rule the lad at school between tho ages of 3 nn I ?0 requires nlbo to ten hours sleep. Crowing boys n.'( J a largo amount of fdotp, nnd when this is denied thorn, neither their bodied nor their luiudi can de velop properly. An English authority points out this lack of hours of rfjst J"; I'a i.;o.ct heavily on the clever boys. mmm Tho Kind You Have Always la uso for over 30 years, and yyA' sonal supervision ulnoo Its infancy. 4&Acu4i Allnwno ono to derelvo you I n tills. 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